{"id":655,"date":"2019-09-12T16:32:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T23:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2019-09-12T16:47:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T23:47:04","slug":"germany-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/germany-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are finally preparing for our long awaited trip to Germany!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Linda and I will be traveling with her brother Mark, his wife Lisa and her other brother Mike. Unfortunately Linda&#8217;s other siblings were not able to make it. Linda has been working very hard since last Christmas to learn the German language, I am sure she will put her new knowledge to good use!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main goal is <del>drinking beer<\/del> to visit the town of Wekenborg and learn a bit more about her families ancestry. While we are there &#8211; going to try and learn a bit more about the Schauf heritage as well and maybe visit a castle or two, some fairy tale towns, and a concentration camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will be staying in a windmill that was built in 1871!  You can learn more about it here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.windmill-schneeren.com\/\">http:\/\/www.windmill-schneeren.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" data-attachment-id=\"656\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/germany-2019\/image\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image.png?fit=820%2C820&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"820,820\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Windmill Schneeren\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image.png?fit=525%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image.png?resize=525%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image.png?w=820&amp;ssl=1 820w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/image.png?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will try to update this site when we get going and I have something interesting to say. Or something to bore you with. Thanks to my wonderful team at IBM for backing me up on the many initiatives while I am gone. I really appreciate it!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I look forward to trying out some of my German jokes while I am there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: What do you call a pissed off German? A: Sauerkraut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: What do you call a Blind German? A: a Not see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: If your American in the living room what are you in the bathroom? A: European<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know you laughed&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are finally preparing for our long awaited trip to Germany! Linda and I will be traveling with her brother Mark, his wife Lisa and her other brother Mike. Unfortunately Linda&#8217;s other siblings were not able to make it. Linda has been working very hard since last Christmas to learn the German language, I am &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/germany-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8MROt-az","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":221,"url":"https:\/\/bradschauf.com\/blog\/trip-to-germany-day-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":655,"position":0},"title":"Trip to Germany &#8211; Day 1","author":"bradschauf","date":"November 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Headed to Germany to kick off the build portion of a very exciting new software service! 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